Covid-19 pandemic 'accelerating,' warns WHO chief | Malay Mail

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GENEVA, March 24 — The new coronavirus pandemic is clearly “accelerating,” the World Health Organisation warned yesterday, but said it was still possible to change its trajectory by going on the attack. The remarks came as the number of deaths soared past 15,000, with more than 341,000 people...

Director-General of World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a news conference on the outbreak of Covid-19 in Geneva, Switzerland, March 16, 2020. — Christopher Black/WHO handout via Reuters

In comparison, it took 11 days for the second 100,000 cases and just four days for the third 100,000 cases, he said. “To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics,” he said, reiterating a call for “testing every suspected case, isolating and caring for every confirmed case and tracing and quarantining every close contact.”

Barcelona and Argentina icon Lionel Messi said: “For your face, avoid touching your eyes, your nose and your mouth. This can prevent the virus from entering your body.”'False hopes'? But he said that “there is currently no treatment that has been proven to be effective against Covid-19,” and warned against the use of drugs not shown to work against the disease.

He said he would be asking G20 leaders in the coming days to work together better to “fight this pandemic in the strongest terms.”

 

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